Automaticity as an Independent Trait in Predicting Reading Outcomes in Middle-School

Many middle-school students struggle with basic reading skills. One reason for this might be a lack of automaticity in word-level lexical processes. To investigate this, we used a novel backward masking paradigm, in which a written word is either covered with a mask or not. Participants (N = 444 [af...

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Published in:Developmental psychology 2021-03, Vol.57 (3), p.361-375
Main Authors: Roembke, Tanja C., Hazeltine, Eliot, Reed, Deborah K., McMurray, Bob
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ability
Academic achievement
Adolescent
Automaticity
Averages
Comprehension
Decoding
Decoding (Reading)
Elementary school students
English
Female
Fluency
Grade 6
Human
Humans
Knowledge Level
Language
Language Processing
Learning outcomes
Lexical processing
Male
Masking
Middle School Students
Middle Schools
Native Speakers
Reading
Reading ability
Reading Comprehension
Reading Fluency
Reading Skills
Schools
Skills
Students
Test Construction
Time
Urban areas
Verbal Fluency
Word Recognition
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